Tag: World

Middle power conundrum amid US–China rivalry (Shin-wha Lee, East Asia Forum)

The international community has faced an unprecedented social and economic shock due to three ‘big bangs’ — increasing US–China strategic competition, the fourth industrial...

2021: The year of failed political leadership (Nanjala Nyabola, Al Jazeera)

2021 was the year of political leadership, or more importantly, lack of it, and an invitation to reflect on the social consequences of leadership...

Clouds Over 2022 (Nouriel Roubini, Project-Syndicate)

Although major economies and markets fared well in 2021 despite all of the uncertainties surrounding new variants of the coronavirus, 2022 will bring new...

Undemocratic Uncontrollable World (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

In the outgoing year, international politics finally got rid of all remnants of controllability, understood as the ability of states to solve the most fundamental problems within the framework of formal...

Social and development impact bonds by the numbers. December 2021 snapshot (Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Onyeka Nwabunnia, and Sarah Osborne, Brookings)

Since 2014, Brookings has developed and maintained a comprehensive database on the global impact bonds market. The below data represents a snapshot from that...

UN launches record humanitarian appeal for 2022 as needs soar (Al Jazeera)

The UN has warned that the need for humanitarian aid is skyrocketing worldwide and will reach an all-time high next year, as the pandemic,...

Omicron and What Comes Next (Simon Johnson, Project-Syndicate)

There is an adage that you cannot have back-to-back financial crises. The implication is that a financial crisis causes people to be more careful...

World Review: AUKUS, Blinken’s Grilling, and Germany’s Elections (Steve Erlanger, Nirmal Ghosh, Halley Toosi, Ivo Daalder, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs)

This week, Secretary of State Blinken was in the Congressional hot seat defending the US exit from Afghanistan. Ivo Daalder, Steve Erlanger, Nahal Toosi, and Nirmal Ghosh examine...

Rules the waves, rule the world (Bruce Jones and Fred Dews, Brookings)

Oceans are at the center of global competition, climate, and trade. In his new book, “To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s...

World. Time of Troubles or New Confrontation (Andrey Bystritskiy, KIEP)

We have moved into the zone of a new confrontation, and so far, we cannot even clearly define its boundaries. It seems that the...

(World/2021) The brave new world of 2021 (Homi Kharas, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/01/21/the-brave-new-world-of-2021/

(USA/World) Biden’s top cabinet nominees promise break from Trump world view (William Roberts, Al Jazeera)

Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken says US to end support for Saudi-led forces in Yemen, renew Iran nuclear deal. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/biden-top-cabinet-nominees-promise-break-from-trump-worldview

(USA/World) Will Biden make America great again? (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

Biden needs a grand strategy to clean up Trump’s mess and restore America’s leadership in the world. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/19/will-biden-make-america-great-again

(Pandemic/World/USA) COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing US global partnership (George Ingram, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19-exposes-a-changed-world-a-prescription-for-renewing-us-global-partnership/

WORLD – Quo Vadis? (Andrey Bystritskiy, Valdai Discussion Club)

We are faced with the threat of a kind of “war of all against all”, a global, world civil war, a multidimensional matrix of...

WORLD/PANDEMIC/VACCINES – What Is the World Doing to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines? (Claire Felter, CFR)

Governments and researchers have been working with an extremely ambitious timetable to provide billions of people with immunity to the new coronavirus. Now, the...